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<H1>[Mageia-dev] Proposal: Deprecate draknetcenter+network init scripts after systemd becomes default.</H1>
<B>Guillaume Rousse</B>
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<I>Tue Aug 23 11:33:50 CEST 2011</I>
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<PRE>On 23/08/2011 10:30, Colin Guthrie wrote:
><i> 'Twas brillig, and Michael scherer at 22/08/11 13:14 did gyre and gimble:
</I>>><i> On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 08:44:01AM -0300, Balcaen John wrote:
</I>>>><i> Le Monday 22 August 2011 12:57:23 Guillaume Rousse a écrit :
</I>>>>><i> On 22/08/2011 11:57, Colin Guthrie wrote:
</I>>>>>><i> I also have it on good authority that many of the features lacking
</I>>>>>><i> in NetworkManager (such as bridging configuration) will be
</I>>>>>><i> available in the not too distant future and many other more
</I>>>>>><i> advanced networking features such as fast-start DHCP,
</I>>>>>><i> per-interface DNS, 4-8's DNS fallback and several other nice
</I>>>>>><i> features will ultimately be possible too.
</I>>>>><i> While I don't care about configuration wizards, I do about
</I>>>>><i> initscripts. How are you supposed to configure a server in some
</I>>>>><i> automated manner without plain-old configuration files ?
</I>>>><i> If i'm not wrong you can still drop plain text files in
</I>>>><i> /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/
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</I>>><i> Provided you want to do nothing fancy like bridge, vlan and
</I>>><i> others stuff that are used by sysadmins.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> As I said in my initial email, but was not clear. All of these things
</I>><i> will be supported in a much nicer way in the near future.
</I>Well, even if supported, I do feel much more confident in shell scripts
I can read, understand and easily fix if needed to fit my own needs,
than in a native binary.
How would removing initscripts support helps enhancing networkmanager
integration ?
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